CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Plastic shopping bags, an abundant source of litter on land and at sea, can be converted into diesel, natural gas and other useful petroleum products, researchers report. The ...

Recently, researchers from Yale University may have made a dent in that inefficiency. They successfully tested a novel way to ...

Old diesel engines from various car manufacturers like Mercedes and Volkswagen are highly prized even in modern times. Not only were these engines incredibly reliable and mechanically simple, but they ...

CHIANG RAI - The City of Chiang Rai has become home to Thailand’s first smart city municipal project, turning plastic waste ...

SITA UK’s planning application to build a plastics-to-diesel facility in Avonmouth, Bristol, U.K. has been approved. “This is a landmark decision which will put Avonmouth at the forefront of the very ...

A few products are just a little too iconic of our current environmental predicament. The Hummer. The computer you bought two years ago. The plastic bag. These items (and others) generate a lot of ...

Normally, potato chip bags, beer rings, gooey food wrappers and other plastics that cannot be recycled go directly to the dump. But improvements on an existing technology could divert billions of tons ...

In early 2018, residents of Boise, Idaho were told by city officials that a breakthrough technology could transform their hard-to-recycle plastic waste into low-polluting fuel. The program, backed by ...

Cutting down on the production of single-use plastics will save taxpayer dollars, reduce pollution and protect our ...

LOWER SAUCON TOWNSHIP, Pa. (CBS) -- A derailment involving three Norfolk Southern trains near Bethlehem, Pennsylvania spilled some diesel fuel and plastic pellets along the Lehigh River on Saturday ...